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in NEW CANADIAN. chziuse her fat? 7r scolded her, Ellen Kerr, a young girl living With her parents at Indian Head, took strychnine and died. The Ottawa fair directors are 32,000 ahead on their exhibition, while the Western Fair shows about $4,000 on the right side. An outbreak of smallpox has oecurcd at Carleton, Bonaventure county, Que. There are nine cases in all. The patients have been duly quarantimxi. During last week there were ‘20 failures in Canada, as compared with 31 for a cor- responding period 1ast 3 car. The Canadian Pacific. railway's new yards and engine-house at Outremont, Que-i (“'9 progressing, and when completed will give employment to between 500 and 000 men. Rev. William Scott, one of the best known Methodist clergymenof thellominion died at Ottawa. last week from the effects of a fall which he sustained a couple of weeks ago. Archibald Chisholm, a \‘Vinnipcg manu- facturer, has been committed for trialon two charge of assaulting little girls. Hall was placed at $6,000 in the first case and refused in the second. Mr. Douglas Cameron, of Toronto, son of the late Chief Justice Sir Matthew Cain- eron, has been appointed Deputy Sergeant- at-Arms in the Dominion House. R. N. O’Brien was found guilty at Mant- real last week of libelling Prince George of “'alcs. Owing to the leniency of the pro- secution he was allowed to go on suspended sentence. It is said that fishermen from Black lloek come over the Canadian side of the Niagara river and use dynamite in their operations, destroying large quantities of fish. Farmers in the Bay of Quinte district are shipping their barley to the English market where there is an ample demand at better prices than are paid in the United States market. The City Council of Toronto has voted the sum of $5,000 to the Scottish regiment being formed there, subject to special legislation. A special‘ cable despstch says that the Imperial Government intend before the close of the year to test the value of the Canadian Pacific route for the transport of Imperial troops. The removal of the duty on sugar has caused a falling offin revenue. The Customs receipts during the past month at the Mont- real Customs house were $587,460, as com. pared with $793,083 for September, 1890. The Canadian tug Bertha End'rcss has fonndered ofi’ Point Iroquois, Lake Superior, and all on boardâ€"â€"five personsâ€"were drown - ed. Two of the lost were sons of Bell and Duncan, the wealthy Michipicoten mine owners ; and all five were Canadians. At Casselman, Ont-., on Wednesday the 8 year old daughter of Mr John Nelson wandered onto the railway bridge, and it is supposed s passing train frightened her so that she fell off and was killed. Her bodv was found in the river next day. ' Drovers are traversing the parishes adja- cent to Quebec city, buying up all the sheep they can lay hands on for the Boston mar- ket. One Beauce firm has just forwarded a shipment of 1,700 animals, and contracted to deliver 6,000 more before the end oi the season. It is reported from Kingston that Mr. G. A. Kirkpatrick is to resign his seatin Fron- tenac, and be elected by a amation for Kingston, both parties agreeing to this, pro- vided the Kingston member is given a seat '1) the reconstructed Cabinet. i ______._._.__..._.â€"â€"â€"~ :01 The extra clerks in the civil Service at Ottawa who were members of the detach- mentsofthe Governor-l ieneral‘s Foot Guards and 43rd Battalion, called out to protect. the property of the Chaudiere mill owners a fortnight ago, were surprised to find that their salaries were docked for absence from work. The Kingston City Council has invited the Agricultural and Arts Assouiation and the Breeders’ Association of Ontario to hold an exhibition in Kingston next year, and at it to select stock for the World’s Fair at Chic. ago. GREAT BRITIAX. The Earl of Portsmouth is dead. Three painters were blown from the great Forth bridge on Tuesday and killed. All the British war vessels have left. Behrâ€" ing sea, and the United States ships will leave in a snort time. The Russian Jewish Committee of London has made an appeal fora relief fund. and the Rothschilds have promised $50,000. The National Liberal Federation at its Newcastle meeting declared for the aboli- tion of the House of Lords and the payment of Parliamentary members. The recent report published that Sir William Vernon Hareonrt‘s eyesight was failing, and that blindness was feared, is denied. Rev. Mr. Spurgeon has arrived at East- bournc, . a watering place on the coast of Sussex,” He expressed himself as confident of confplcte recovery. He still needs much care, however. Tlfe London Standard, in discussing Sir Charles Tupper’s Imperial Federation scheme, says that the English people are not prepared to submit to an artificial scarcity ofifood to encourage the colonial farmer. :Admiral Hotham, in command of the British North Pacific Squadron, is collecting the facts conuectfl with the seizure of the gaiiadian sealer Otto in Behring Sea by a _ nitcd States mau-of-war, to lay before the Imperial Government. UNITED STATES. , Three feet of snow has fallen in Montana. { Mrs. Grover Cleveland has attained the degree of MA. l Edmund Schermerhorn, worth $20,000,- 000, died at Newport, 8.1., last week aged 73. Ten prisoners, some of them notorious and desperate criminals, have escaped from jail at St. Louis. ’ Six miners are cntombcd in the Richard- son collicry at Pottsville, Pa., and thercis no hope of rescuing them. ‘7 Patrick Boyle of the Irish Canadian, pub- lished in Toronto, has been elected first vice- ,‘president of the Irish National League of I America. Eldorado county, 03.1., is being swept by W”.â€" lforcst fires. Many farmers and ranchers have been rendered homeless. At Chicago last. week a boiler explosion aboard the steamer C. \\’. Parker killed seven persons and seriously injured many: others. I“. \V. Il'ottel, messenger of the room”: l'lxprcss Company at. Waco, Tex., is almcn l and two p;i;kagc:~: containing 971,037 are also? missmg. Four persons were killed by a passing train on a level crossing at Staten Island . last Tuesday. Four persons were seriously injured in cs- caping from a burning tcucmcnt in Boston on Monday night. Heavy rains have caused flools in Okla- homa territory, and many boomers have . lost their horses, \vziggons and cattle. At an early hour last Tuesday morning a fire broke out in a tenement house in New York, and four persons were burned to death. Two freight cirs wcrc run off the transfer steamer t'harlcs Marian at Memphis, Tenn, on Sunday, and four men in them were drownded. John ll. “'ood, who shot and killed Alex. S. Brown in a duel last May at Hiwassetug Gm, has been convicted of niurdcr and scn- l tcnccd to life imprisonment. _ In Jefferson park, chicagn, last week . M rs. Julia 1%.. Seavey, a respectable English widow, who owned property worth 5520.000, shot herself dead. She had suffered from ill-health. A general strike of railroad coal miners was inauguratcdin the Pittsburg district ! last week. The men want half a cent in- crease in mining rates. .\carly l0,000 men are out. A searcher ail-or buffalo bones in North Dakota set a match to the prairie grass be- caused it interfered with his work, and the . conflagration destroyed property worth half‘ a million dollars. Andrew Quinlan, aged 79. the oldest rail- road conductor in the United States was killer] by a train at Avon, New Jersey, the other day, while attempting to cross the New York and Long Branch tracks. Prof. Kcnji‘o, coloured, of the State Normal school at Huntsville, Ala, was struck on the head with a chisel on Thursâ€" day while chastising a pupil, and it is probâ€" able he will die. The loss of the schooner Frank l’crow ofl‘l Whitefish point, lake Superior, with a crew “ of nine on board, is now generally asccptcd ‘ in Chicago. The Perew was commanded by Capt. J. Marquery, of Bay City, Mich. It is reported in \Vashington that the He- lect Commi:tec of the Senate appointed for l the purpose has collected a great mass of evidence to be used in supporting the Ameri- can plan of reciprocity in the coming confer- ence with Canada. At Bay City, Mich, (n Saturday night, Hul'ucrt. and William Burke, brothers, engaged in a fight over a money matter. William, while lying on his back, kicked his brother in the abdomen, causing his death. James G. Blaine, jr., in answering his wife‘s application for divorce, pleads poverty and asks for custody of the child, which is said to resemble its grandfather, the United Mates Secretary of State. Mrs. Blaine wants a divorce, suitable alimony and the child. The irrcpressible George Francis Train attempted to deliver a lecture in the Grand Opera house, New York, on Sunday night, but was howled down. He was very mad, and said he would never again add " an American audience, but would go to Chicago and live there the rest of his days. There has been shipped by water from Saginaw river ports during the season to date the smallest amountof lumber in a some of years, being 506,970,000 feet. The ship- ment of shingles was 60,000,000, and of lath . 11,239,000. A Detroit despatch says Dr. \V. F. Met- calf and Mrs. Tifianyv, of that City, have en- tered actions for libel against the Toronto illnil and \Vindsor If: cowl for publishing a statement that the doctor had deserted his vile, formerly Ella Knox. of Bellevillc, . 0nt., and taken up his residence with the. widow of Dr. Tiffany. Thr- partics claim $10,000 from the Mail and $25,000 from the Record. 1 l l I The statement is made in Washington that the United Stator-51nd decided to post- one indefinitely the proposed conference with Canada on the reciprocity question. One report has it that this is owing to Secâ€" retary Elaine's ill-health, and another that it is due to an indisposition on the part of the United States Government to talk reci- procity wlth the present Administration in Ottawa. 1x GENERAL. The Hawaiian Queen Lillinokulani is dying and the island is m a very unsettled condition. l Reportsfrom the Baku districts of Russia' gay that thousands of persons are dying of starvation. The famine in Poland is growing worse, and the starving inhabitants are becoming desperate. Karl I., King of Wurtembcrg, who hadl been ill for some time, died the other day. He was (58 years of age. ' ‘he Presidential elections will be held in Chili this month. Admiral Monti; will pro- bibly be elected as Baluiaceda's successor. fillaiirR-ong. brother to the King of Siam, is about to visit England, and is probably entrusted with important communications, on the subject of French encroachments in the Mekong Valley. Despite the protestations of peace heard on all sides, the relations between the Gov- ernments of Germany and Russia remain strained. Princess Beatrice, wife of Prince Henry of Battcnburg. has been delivered of a. son. This is the fourth child. A recent attempt was made to blow up a bridge near Rosenthal, Bohemia, over which the Emperor of Austria passed. News has been received of the death of! l andeveldc, the Belgian explorer, on his Eustasis Mendez, formerly commandant ofi militia in Havana, has been convicted of kidnapping, and sentenced to be shot. Fearful reports of a cholera epidemic have been received from China. For the past month the death rate in .500 Chow has been very high. my home from the Congo Free State. A Marshal of the Russian nobility is: ' Catholic youth in Rome on Thursday, lament.- ‘ God works only through laws and never sets endeavor to procure in the little circle of their friends and ac- ,quamtunces. The poorest mechanic, nay, . And shine like runs in brightness accused of having stolen 70,000 roubles of thefaminc fund, which he was entrusted to expend. The distress is so great in Russia that 25.9 000,000 persons are unable to pay their taxe- and this will cause a budget deficit of £l'3,00ll'(ll)ti, Capt. Youngiiusbanil the British olllcer said to have been killed by Russians in Pamiricastern Asia, has been heard from i and is all right. The oilii-crs of the Russian Imperial Guard have derided not to drink champagne at regimentil banquets, but to contribute the indisey which would have been so spcnt to the peasants of the famine-stricken dis- tricts. The Pope. in receiving an association of ed his want of liberty, and said even the privilege of receiving the deputation he was addressing was dependent upon a hostile Government. The French pilgrims at present in Rome insulted the memory of Victor Emmanuel by spitting on the visitors’ book kept by his tomb in the Pantheon. Rioting ensued, and several persons were injured in the street lighting that took place. The Pope greatly deplored the event, __â€"â€"â€"-.-vâ€"â€"â€"â€"â€" Golden Thoughts for Every Day. Monday. -â€" 'l‘hr-y urt‘ coming! Thcy are coming! \\ ho huvc born in darkness long; The): are coming to the Savior “'illi a glad, triumphant song. From the land herond the Ocean. From the islands of the sea, From the valleys and the mountains. They are coming. Lord, to Thee. Long they in" beneath the shadow _.u\ ud the gloom of dreary night, \i uiting wearily the downing Of the promised heavenly light. But Ilicy'vc heard the glorious gospel of «aivaiion full and frcc: Now they rcad the " blessed Bible.“ They are coming, Lord, to Thee. -â€".‘lnonymou.°. Tuesdayâ€"But is there any reason in the doctrine of a natural law which controls all things, and no God who controls law itself’: It is said that aspecial divine providence im- plies an interference with the regular action of natural laws : a direct exercise of the divine will aside from or even opposed to their uniform operation ; that in not philosophical to suppose that God shows partialityâ€"that He sets aside for some men the laws which regulate the conduct of others ; that He favors particular persons, families, and nations. It is said also that them aside. But this is be ging the question. \l'hat are natural laws? n the lower ele- ments of creation they may be described as the behavior of matter. Under the same conditions, matter, so far as we know, bc‘ haves in the same manner.â€"â€"[Henry Vl'ard Beecher. \Vcdnesday. -â€"- Lord. her watch Thy church is keeping _\\ hcn shall earth Thy rule obey! W hen shall end the night. of Weeping? ‘\\ hon shall break the promiscd day! .Sccvthc whitening harvestlanguish }\ airing still the laborer's toil: \\ as it vain, Thy Son's dccp anguish? Shall the strong retain the spoil: Tidings. sent. to every creature. Millions yet have never heard, Can they hear without a preacher! _].nrd Almighty. give the “’ord ; Give the word ; in every nation 1.1-? the gospel-trumpet sound, “In news: g a world's salvation in the earth’s rcmotest bound. â€".4non;v/mous. Thursdayâ€"There are few men who are not ambitious oi distinguishing themselves in the nation or country where they live, and of growing considerable among those With whom they converse. There is a. kind of grandeur and respect which the meanest and most msxguificou: pirt of mankind the man who lives upon common alms, gets him his set of admirers and delights in that superiority which he enjoys over those who are in some respects beneath him. This ambition, which is natural to the soul of man, might, methinks, receive a very happy turn, and, it it were rightly directed, con- tribute. as much to a persmi's advantage as it gcneriilly does to his uneasiness and dis- quiethddtlisou. Fridayâ€" \Vhal‘ throng is this, what noble troop, tha'l pours. A rravcd in bcaiilcous guise, Out through the glorious city’s open doors ’l‘o greet my wondering eyes; The hosts 01‘ Christ's elected, The Jewels that. 110 hours In llis own crown. selected To wipe away my tears. Ofprnpllcts great. and Dilll'ial‘i'llh high, a band {that oncc has borne the cross, \\ itn :i'.l the company that won that land. .Bs' counting gain for loss. .\0\'.' floutiu frccdoni‘s lightness, From tyinLuts' chains set frcc, Arruyco to welcome me. â€"â€".lnon_i/cious. Saturdayâ€"He said to them, when speak- ing of this future life, and the home in which that future life will be lived, “If it were not so, I would have told youâ€"if there were no future life, no future home for youI would have plainly told you ; I would not have allowed you by My silence to have cherished hopes that could never be ful~ tilled: but not only have you My silence, but I giveyou My authoritative and explicit statement that there is such a life and there is such a hoinc.”â€"-J)r. Gunning/Lam. _.__. The Spirit of the Day. The spirit of the present day is that of work for humanity, and whoever does not feel this is out of touch With the forces of his time, and thus misses all that vast support of invisible but most potent strength that he would otherwise receive. Selfishness iso- lates. If an individual sets out proposing to work for himself, only, he is at the same disadvantage in the tide of afl'airs that a man would be who proposed to manufacture all his own clothing, and raise or capture all his own food, and build his own house and make all his own furniture, rather than to enter into the great scheme of co-operation with the world, and do some one thing for all, while each in turn, of all humanity, does some one thing for him. In these clos- ing years of a cycle we are entering into such a new atmosphere of spiritual forces that the only safety, the only success, is to draw constantly toward the iioblcr ideals and test our daily life by the higher stan- dards. Selfishness, self-interest arc cor- rosive in their action on the true gold of life. They undermine all its foundations, and leave nothing on which to stand, l The intensity of the distress,how- ever, may be judged from the fact that in many places the elementary schools have been closed on account of lack of funds. A 1 users shunt. inn. _ .hi Englishman Sends \‘cn‘ lllglflyColol-cd Plclnrcs of the Famine. The St. I’ctcrsburg correspondent of the Daily Tel/graph sends a long and harrowing account of the condition of the people in the famine districts of Russia. Though the dis: rcss is undoubtedly intense, gie pictures given by the correspondent are tlloucrnt to be ovcrdrau'n. In fucii‘lhis letter is-filled with glaring errors, and his displays of ignorance HEP Illllny. He states that whole towns containing 30,000 to 50,000 people are petitioning the Government to allow them to migrate to China or elsewhere. He also asserts that suicide has become enormously rifc since the famine set in. Unfortunately Russian papers are entirely devoid of newsabout the famine. circular has been issued by the Minister of the Interior, which enumerates thirteen governments in which the people are com» Bl “CHAIRS INTENDED VICTII‘ Polly Returns to Canada and is Doi ug wen After His Remarkable Experience. A few weeks ago a tourist among the mountains along the Canadian Pacific Rail- road met young Mr. Pelly, who figured in the famous Birchall murder case in Canada. It will be recalled that Polly went to Can- ada. with Ilirchall to be his partner in the imaginary farm which Birchall’s dupes sup- posed to be in Canada, near the American line. It was Pelly whom Birchall took to abigb bank overlooking the Niagara River with the intention, it is believed, of pushing him over into the foaming river and thin adding another murder to his record. Aftei the Birchall trial, in which Polly was one 0'. the principal witnesses. he went to England, but soon returned and has been engaged in an executive capacity during the building of the railroad between Calgary and Edmon- ton. When the tourist met him in the Selkirk Mountains he was on his way to Vancouver for a vacation. Pelly is an entertaining young fellow who has travelled extensively, knows the Alps well, and has even been to Central Africa. pletely famine stricken and eight in which i A few years ago he had a chance to join a. a partial famine prevails. ixoxin'riov 01:an rEAsANTs. The correspondent says : “ Dispatches from theinterior are most alarming. The August frosts destroyed the barley crop, the staple food in Archangel. In the extreme North the crops have been destroyed by rains. Straw from thatched roofs is utilized for fodder. Cattle are dying by wholesale on tho roadsides. Various Ministers have issued conflicting orders, resulting mutter chaos. The grants of seed corn have been stopped. Immense tracts of land are lying waste, and a scarity of corn is threatened in 1892. The cattle plague has broken out in many places. Peasants in Segowsky attack- ed some veterinary surgeons who had been sent to destroy infected cattle, and several were wounded in the skirmish. are becoming beggars. \Vomcn are selling thcmselves to support their children. No work can be secured bylthe starving persons, even on the Volga. Clergymen The new loan will only be a drop in the ocean. A large budget dc- ficit is certain, and to make matters worse a million loads of rye promised by the Gov‘ ernor of a neighboring province, and on which the Ministry hall relied, do not exist. The discovery has caused consternation. The famine is expected to reach its acme in November. The peasants threaten a revolution unless the Czar gives them relief from private sources. Partial risings are 'e ortcdin Yekaterinoslay, Nijni-Novgorod and Mazan. the great fair which is annually held at Nijni‘Novgorod, and which is at- tended by merchants and dealers from all arts of Russia was a failure this year. This was due to the great number of bink- rupts and their consequent withdrawal from trade. vim: KINDS or roon. “ What little food it is possible for the easants to obtain is of the vilest description, but so sharp are the pangs of hunger that they gladly eat what at other times they would not touch. In many cases their only food is the sweepings and refuse from the flour mills. 1n Saratoti' the landowners found this refuse so injurious to their cattle that they would not feed it to them. though it was not fit for cattle to eat, the landowners made bread of it and sold it to the peasants. straw and bran mixed with a very small quantity of rye is considered a godsend. In many villages the peasants have nailed up their huts and left their communes to scour the country in search of work. Hun- dreds ofthem have failed in their search and are begging along the roadsides. In numer- ous cases the seed corn which was furnished the peasants by the Government has been eaten instead of planted, and the land is lying fallow. Notwithstanding these terri~ hle conditions, taxes continue to be extorted from the starving people. Everything is taken from them to satisfy the tax-gatherers \Vhere the peasants display any unwilling- ness to pay the collectors resort to force to extort the money. The knout is extensive- ly used by the officers of the Tax Collecting Department of Russia.” “ The peasant boards have sen". petitions to the ministry praying that the taxes and arrears of taxes may be wiped out. The petitioners declare that the Government will be obliged to maintain the impoverished people for fourteen months, and that it will be utterly impossible for them to pay the taxes." A noun CAREFUL Srarrsrrx'i‘. A St. I’ctersburg dispatch says that while cxaggeratel reports of the famine in certain provinces of llHSsia have been given cur- rency, thesufl'ering is undoubtedlyappalliiw. It is not true, however, that starving pea- sants are subjected to the knout for non- payment of taxes, or that there is any dan~ ger of revolution. In fact, in the provinces chiefly alllictcd thcpeople are without either the physical strength or the weapons to attempt revolution, even if they had any capable leaders. It is true that bands of desperate men rove about the country coin- mitting acts of brigandagc, but. they scatter at the first sight of the troops, or even of the police. The large majority of the famine stricken yield to blank dispair and the authorities would not be displeased to see them show some of the energy that a. disposition to re- volt would indicate. It is calculated that the empire will lose, owing to the famine, from twelve to fourteen millions of rubles in taxes in the Volga provinces alone. ’ ‘lio famine in other regions is scattered in spots and an estimate of the loss is more difiicult. It is not likely that those advocates of temperance who argue that the use of wines and malt liquors tends to lessen the con- sumption of distilled liquors will cite the experience of Germany in support of their contention. Recent statistics show that while the consumption of the lighter liquors has steadily advanced, the use of the more fiery beverages has also increased at an alarming rate. \Vitliin eight years the cases of chronic alcoholism and delirium tremcns treated in public institutions in Germany increased from 4,272 to 10,360, the latter figure including (373 women. Little wonder that the anxictks of German statesmen should be aroused and that they should be contemplating the imposition of greater restrictions upon the traffic. ” You had better accept Mr. Hippie,” said Mrs. Elder to her daughter; “it is your last chance.” “ Then you think this is the court. of last resort, do you, momma ‘1” asked the girl. But, I lread made of finely chopped 1 party travelling to Lake Nyassa. He im- proved the opportunity, saw the scenery of the lower Zambcsi, hunted hippopotami in the Shin River, visited the fine town of Blantyre in the Nyassa highlands, and saw that beautiful lake. Pclly thinks Birchall was the most plausi- ble man he ever met, and was well calculated to deceive the shrewdest if he set about the task. The young man thinks he had a. very narrow escape, and he Will answer no more advertisements of Englishmen who want partners to join them in the farming industry in America. â€"â€"â€"9_â€"â€" ~37??? A Lame Defence. A singular defence of the expulsion of the Jews by the Russian Government has been published in England and is said to be at- tracting much attention. “ Expulsions,” it says, “ are entirely due to Jewish viola- tions of the law. ” Jews entitled to live in .the cities have, by forged permits, gained a. settlement in the central provinces from which they are excluded. “ Numbers of mechanics have forsaken their regular occupation and have taken to peddling, thus violating the conditions under which they were allowed to settle.” Others have left the town to which they were confined, and others have built houses, which is for- bidden by law. Then when the law is en- foreed there is a. great outcry, “ but every‘ Jew so expelled courted his own fate.” This argument. is ingenuous if not ingenius, but it fads wholly to reach much less excusethe evils that have excited the indignation of the civilized world. The press of this con- tinent or of Europe has never defended the infraction of law. But it is the harsh laws which Russia has framed against the Jews that are so barbarous and cruel. To limit within narrow bounds a man’s home, simply on account of his raceâ€"a race that has no countryâ€"that is despotic and cruel. To forbid men from changing their occupation, or from adopting any honest occupation, that is a crime against liberty. To prohibit to an honorable person and a citizen the purchase of houses or other legitimate pro- perty, that is tyrannical. All these laws furthermore tend to incite the very evils they would cure. to promote vice and incite disloyalty. It is on account of this anti- Jewish code that Russia is condemned, and justly. If a law is cruel and subversive of liberty, it is no excuse to the Government which punishes violation of such a law tnab the one punished knew what he was domg. No. Danger of War. The New York Tribune explains the vari- ous sensational war rumors that have recently occupied 30 conspicuous a. place in the European press, and which have more or less alarmed all classes, even influencing the money markets, by the fact that this is the “ dead” season when the various par- liaments and legislatures are taking their recess and when consequently there is a great scarcity of the ordinary political news with which its pages are regularly filled. Owing to the great dearth of facts, the purveyors of news have been tempted to dress up the few trivial incidents that are occurring and to invest them with an im- portancc and meaning never intended by those taking part therein. Thus of the Sigri affair, which was interpreted to signify the throwing down of the gauntlet by Eng- land to Russia, the Tribune says: “ English sailors and marines have often landed before on the islands of the Turkish archipelago for purposes of gun-drill or picnic and nothing was ever thought of it." That there is no reason for alarm, or for con- cluding that the war so long-threatened is about ”to break out forthwith is evident, the Tribune thinks, from the fact that “the Czar is amusing himself at Copenhagen without seeing any of the Ministers, and that Lord Salisbury has not deemed it necessary to interrupt his holiday at Dieppe to visiteither the Foreign Office in Londouor the Queen at Balmoral.” __.._____ A Remarkable Dog. According to For-as! and Strram, there is a. most remarkable dog in Hamilton. He is a rough haircd mongrel terrier and rejoices in the name of “ Jack, the policemnn‘s dog.” Fifteen years ago his master, a night watchâ€" man, was shot while on duty. The dog, who - I I was with him, ran home and, by whining at the door and scratching, attracted the at- tention of the inmates, whom he at once guided to his dying master. For the three days that the man lingered betwoen life and death the dog lay at the foot of his bed and never stirred until the body was removed to the cemetery, when he followed in the funeral procession to the grave. Thence he went to the police station, and every night since then he has attended the men while on duty. At six at. m. when the men are lined up for dismissal, the dog takes up his post at the head of the line. On the command, “ Dismiss” being given, he barks and im- mediately disappears down the street, running at his utmost speed. No one knowB where he goes nor what he lives on. All but his “public” life is a mystery. In tho miscellaneous class at the Hamilton show his entry reads. “ 305. Hamilton Police Force. Jack, the policeman’s dog (rough terrier), fifteen years old. Not for sale.” Miss Whitney awarded him vhc., doubtless more in recognition ol his unique reputation than anything else. m- . ._.____ HG (IICI'V'Oiisly)~-â€"“ I~l wifii to express my feelings ; may I 7” She teoldly)â€"“ This is not an express office.